חוק התקנים (תיקון מס' 19), התשפ"ד-2024Standards Law (Amendment No. 19), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

This Law includes significant amendments to the Standards Law and the Import and Export Ordinance, the main one being the creation of a new and optional track for importing, manufacturing and marketing goods that comply with European regulatory requirements or directives, as an alternative to the obligation to meet Israeli standardization requirements. The Law includes a unique arrangement in Israeli law that allows European law to be applied in Israel, with the binding text being in English. Alongside this, the Law requires the Ministry of Economy to publish for the public a professional and reliable translation of the European regulations that will apply in Israel, and to specifically examine each update to the regulation, so that changes made to it in Europe will not be automatically adopted in Israel. The Law lists the European regulations – directives and other regulations – that will apply in Israel by virtue of it, as well as the conditions for their application and their effective dates. The Law authorizes the Minister of Economy and Industry to expand by order the list of regulations, including their appendices and updates, adopting them without any changes, taking into account considerations regarding the enforceability of the provisions included in the order. Similarly, the Minister may, on his own initiative or at the request of another minister, postpone the effective dates for adopting the various regulations under European law, for periods not exceeding one year in total, in accordance with preparedness for their implementation. On the other hand, removing a directive, applying it with changes or adding conditions to it, as well as postponing effective dates for a period exceeding one year, shall be done by order of the Minister of Economy, but only after receiving the recommendation of the exceptions committee for this. The exceptions committee is an advisory governmental body operating under the Import and Export Ordinance in accordance with the import reform approved in 2021. The Law establishes provisions regulating how to approach the exceptions committee and the possibility of appealing to the government's decision after the exceptions committee's decision, as well as the cases in which the Minister of Economy will be authorized to act even without a recommendation from the exceptions committee. The Law establishes exclusions for various products, such as: food products, motor vehicles, and any item or work process subject to an official standard concerning fire safety, except for portable firefighting equipment not permanently attached to land or a building, extinguishing materials and independent smoke detectors. The Law also establishes additional requirements, beyond those of the adopted European regulation, regarding products that pose a danger, such as devices operated by cooking gas (LPG), or regarding products for which it is appropriate to set different requirements due to unique conditions in Israel that justify this, such as requirements regarding concentrations of substances in dishwasher cleaning liquids that could harm effluent water, which in Israel, unlike in Europe, is used for irrigating agricultural crops. The Law also includes provisions intended to accelerate the process of adapting Israeli legislation to European standards, including a unique and unprecedented mechanism whereby the Minister of Economy will be authorized to add, by order, to the Seventh Schedule of the Law, subsidiary legislation that falls within the authority of another ministry, thereby establishing that alongside legislation in Israeli law, the provisions of the European regulation will also apply; this order requires the approval of a Knesset committee whose area of concern covers the regulated matter. The Law also includes additional relief unrelated to the new import track; for example, an importer or manufacturer of samples not intended for marketing and distribution to the public will not be required to meet any standardization requirements. Most provisions of the Law will take effect on 1 January 2025, though some will take effect later.

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